Fast Charlie director Phillip Noyce
Fast charlie director Phillip Noyce…Australian film director Phillip Noyce, who has helmed the popular film Salt, is excited that his latest film Fast Charlie (2023) has finally hit the theatres in India. “It’s so exciting that people in india are watching my film now. I wish I was there to see it with them to see their reactions. Seeing a movie with the indian audience is different because they are so expressive with their appreciation. They live the movie inside their body in a cinema. That doesn’t really happen anywhere in the world,” he says.The director’s experience of filming Fast charlie was “fantastic for two reasons”. “I was filming in one of my most favourite cities, New Orleans. Secondly, I was filming with james Caan, an idol of mine, Pierce Brosnan, and Morena Baccarin. It was fabulous to work on the locations with such a stellar cast,” he shares with a smile.Actor james Caan’s untimely death left the cast and crew in shock but he will always cherish a lovely memory. “Mr. james Caan passed away two months after completing the shoot of the film. When we were working with him, we thought that perhaps we were not making a drama, but a documentary. He is playing a man suffering from dementia and he wasn’t actually acting, rather living the same experience, except the camera is rolling,” he tells us, adding, “However, he was so jolly and enthusiastic after the shoot, we had the privilege of working with an amazing actor. He was so much into method acting that he created dementia. It wasn’t him, it was his performance and he fooled everyone on the set. It was a relief actually! He wasn’t sick, he was fine. But sadly, he passed away soon after.”Noyce is fond of the indian film industry and has watched several films as well. “I have watched rrr, it was a huge success all around the world. I also loved Dev Patel’s Monkey Man, it was the film of the year for me. It has the same kind of love for storytelling that rrr had. I think it is an indian movie,” he tells us.